I am learning new technologies and doing some small projects to practice these technologies alone. And I want to learn the agile methodolgy along the way but don't know if it's a good or bad idea to learn it alone and how far I can go with it.

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Have a look at the book called Practices of an Agile Developer. It covers aspects such as the development process, attitudes as an agile developer, management-related topics, and of course, what to do when coding. It's a nice one.

Pick a project and try and do it as fast as possible. When your finished, review what you did. Work out how you can improve the project. Pick another project and incorporate those improvements into it. Repeat.

@Steven A. Lowe - It may not be but it teaches you to constantly refine your development process and that is part of agile
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John ShaftMar 31 '11 at 15:34

hmmmm. ok so i get an idea, and i bang out some code, and after hacking at it for 72 hours straight it works. so i review the code and decide that things would go faster if i made less comments and used shorter variable names next time... not agile ;-)
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Steven A. LoweMar 31 '11 at 16:17